GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Monday, September 6, 2021

AFGHANISTAN: A MICROMANAGED MILITARY FOUGHT A MISMANAGED WAR AND LOST.

ICHEOKU says if after twenty years of blood and treasure the situation in Afghanistan was in such a mission-critical that a $700 million embassy building could not safely be occupied and operates, but has to be closed and abandoned and eventually will fall into ruins, what then have America been doing all the years of sojourning in Afghanistan. It shows that the Taliban was righteously disappointed and indignant that America stayed in their country, uninvited, for that long without any real achievement. They could not even secure their own embassy building and you wonder what else did they secure; and why American people are not rising up in protest on the streets and demanding that the frolic of the last twenty years be investigated and accounted for. 

American taxpayers deserve some answers and they should be asking to know what the two trillion dollars purchased and on what it was expended. How was the money disbursed and who got what, Afghanistan officials or their American counterparts? Over two thousand American lives and over twenty thousand injured Americans cannot just be swept under the rug and pretend as if nothing happened, especially when the amount of money spent to incur such a gargantuan loss is factored in. They had the superiority in manpower, weapons, equipments,  airplanes, logistics and all manners of other hi-tech gadgets and vision capabilities, yet they lost the war to a band of Taliban fighters. What happened? 

ICHEOKU says has come to the conclusion that too much civilian interference with war prosecution cost America the war in Afghanistan, period. The civilian wing of the Washington DC elite and political establishment purposely gummed the war effort in Afghanistan and misdirected its prosecution. Too much civilian involvement and near total control of the military is eroding the fighting abilities of the United States military as they not only start these wars but also micromanage its prosecution. This is causing the many not too stellar results of missions and in turn causing too many dissatisfaction in the military as the fighting men and women know that they can do it but not with their hands tied behind their backs. 

It is increasingly bleeding the morals of the men and women in uniform and also eroding the confidence in America by many international bodies and other countries which heavily relies on America to show the way. This evaporating confidence in America must be arrested quickly before it is too late, forcing these various interests to seek shelter of protection elsewhere, most likely China. It is acceptable that the military should be under the control of civilian leadership, but it should be to the extent of issuing a command but not how that command is carried out. It is what the military trains and lives to do every day, how to carry out the command. But to order them into war and still dictate how to fight the war is too intrusive and very demoralizing. It makes them look idiotic and that they don't know how to do their job.

How could an infantry with boots on the ground in a theater of war be required to first crosscheck with Washington DC or Florida or Virginia before moving on a cornered target? How could a fighter pilot over an enemy be required to ensure that no civilian, women and children will be killed by a dropped bomb? How can a band of brothers carrying out a raid of an enemy'e dwelling be required to make sure that only the "correct" enemies were killed and when unavoidable collateral damage results, is courtmartialed and sometimes imprisoned or fired? it is not as if they are not operating under a highly charged environment already, but their civilian minders prefer to add to their psychological payloads. 

Recall the incident that happened with Osama bin Laden who was cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora around December 2001. But instead of the summarily swooping in on him and capture or take him out, their rule of engagement required them to first seek clearance and get approval from the civilians in Washington DC before acting on the intelligence. When they did, they were ordered to step down and not proceed to deal with Osama bin Laden, allowing him to escape kill or capture so soon after 9/11 and you wonder why? The war would have ended right then in Tora Bora, but the Deep State Military Industrial Complex wanted to make money, hence the forever war began, resulting in the 20 years jamboree in Afghanistan. 

Now, America will also go down in history as another country which was defeated in Afghanistan, the other major two being the British Empire and the Union of Socialists Soviet Republic, largely now known as Russia. It was the same story line, they could not defeat Afghanistan and were forced into a humiliating withdrawal with their tails tucked in between their legs. But if only there was not a too constraining rules of engagement which hamstrung American fighting men and women, their own story of expedition in Afghanistan would have turned out differently. But their hands were tied by too many regulations; some, made up as they fought, which made it impossible for them to operate and no war could have been won under such circumstances.

The only way American military can start winning wars again is to let them do what they train and live for, fight like their lives depends on it. The First and Second Gulf wars were such wars where Generals Charles Albert Horner and Norman Schwarzkopf were allowed the liberties of being commanding generals and they delivered. Therefore going forward, the military should be allowed to do what they do best or don't send them into battle, especially for some of these needless egotistic wars such as to avenge one's father's image. Also many of these wars can be avoided if the draft is reintroduced in the military. With everyone having a full stake in the wars, including those war profiteering mongrels, wars will be seriously thought through before they are started. 

If they know that their own kits and kins could be sent into battle fronts, they will have a thorough circumspection to undergo before pulling the trigger of war declaration. But as long it is other peoples children and relatives that will be put in harms way and possibly brought back in body bags and America flag draped caskets, they will continue to be very cavalier in the manner they start wars, including in very distant lands with no particular national security interest or implication to America. They have upgraded wars as money minting endeavors for them, sort of business venture and they will only continue to salivate at any opportunity to make more money at the expense of American taxpayers. 

Imagine the impact all the resources wasted in Afghanistan would have had were it invested in America? It would have transformed America into the Dubai of the Western world, with a fully rebuilt, replaced and completely modernized infrastructure; possibly free tuition, free healthcare and possibly solve the homeless problem too. But no, the fat cats of DSMIC want the money in boatloads and only by American taxpayers spending them on expensive weapons and military hardwares will they make out like bandits through war profiteering. 

Thankfully, Joe Biden stayed his ground and brought the Afghanistan gallivanting to an end. The Deep State military industrial complex is not happy, they are seething and growling, and before too soon, another war might be started somewhere just to pacify them. Whether it will lead to a war with China, which will be a mother-load for weapons sales, nobody knows but it will definitely be a very costly adventure both in human and financial resources. It will also be the mother of all wars which America has ever engaged in as the forces will be nearly evenly matched, ferocity for ferocity. It will not be a case of an overmatched opponent struggling to put up some fight, but two strong powers going at each other and throwing everything into it to come out on tops, the proverbial two elephants. 

But the world will never allow such war between America and China to happen because it will literary destroy the world, economically. The two sides are the world's greatest powers, militarily and economically; and their engaging in a destructive war will not only stagnate their respective countries, but also strangle a world that is heavily dependent on them for their own survival. The grass will not allow itself to suffer such pain and agony and will therefore not allow the two elephants to fight. But the Deep State Military Industrial Complex is addicted to wars and they must have their fix, starting another war very soon. ICHEOKU says strongly believes that war between America and China is uploading.  #ReintroduceDraft.

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